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title: "Tape Media Pools"
description: "You can use the cmdlets from this section to perform the following operations with media pools:"
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# Tape Media Pools

You can use the cmdlets from this section to perform the following operations with media pools:

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      <p>Cmdlet</p>
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      <p>Operation</p>
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    <td>
      <p><a href="add-vbrtapemediapool.md" class="T_Filenames">Add-VBRTapeMediaPool</a></p>
    </td>
    <td>
      <p>Creates standard media pools.</p>
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    <td>
      <p><a href="new-vbrtapemediapoolretentionpolicy.md" class="T_Filenames">New-VBRTapeMediaPoolRetentionPolicy</a></p>
    </td>
    <td>
      <p>Creates retention settings for standard media pools.</p>
    </td>
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    <td>
      <p><a href="new-vbrtapemediasetcreationpolicy.md" class="T_Filenames">New-VBRTapeMediaSetCreationPolicy</a></p>
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    <td>
      <p>Sets rules for creating media sets for standard media pools.</p>
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    <td>
      <p><a href="set-vbrtapemediapool.md" class="T_Filenames">Set-VBRTapeMediaPool</a></p>
    </td>
    <td>
      <p>Modifies standard media pool.</p>
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    <td>
      <p><a href="add-vbrtapegfsmediapool.md" class="T_Filenames">Add-VBRTapeGFSMediaPool</a></p>
    </td>
    <td>
      <p>Creates GFS media pool.</p>
    </td>
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    <td>
      <p><a href="new-vbrtapegfsmediasetpolicy.md" class="T_Filenames">New-VBRTapeGFSMediaSetPolicy</a></p>
    </td>
    <td>
      <p>Creates GFS media set options.</p>
    </td>
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    <td>
      <p><a href="set-vbrtapegfsmediapool.md" class="T_Filenames">Set-VBRTapeGFSMediaPool</a></p>
    </td>
    <td>
      <p>Modifies GFS media pool.</p>
    </td>
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    <td>
      <p><a href="get-vbrtapemediapool.md" class="T_Filenames">Get-VBRTapeMediaPool</a></p>
    </td>
    <td>
      <p>Returns media pools.</p>
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      <p><a href="remove-vbrtapemediapool.md" class="T_Filenames">Remove-VBRTapeMediaPool</a></p>
    </td>
    <td>
      <p>Removes media pools.</p>
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